Multiple Hyphens in Hostname

[Michael Voight]

I don't understand why there would be multiple hyphens in a row, but
they should not be prevented by DNS.

Incidentally, the name a pc or printer calls itself doesn't necessarily
have to match the name it is known by via DNS.

Michael

Leon Workman wrote:
> 
> I've read RFC 1035 and RFC 1123, but they make no mention as to whether
> or not multiple hyphens within hostnames are fine.  I've got a network
> with several thousand PC's and printers setup with hostnames that have
> two or more hyphens in them.  Am I going to have to reconfigure each
> client's name on the entire network if I want to get DNS up and running?
> 
> Leon Workman
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